Charles Stevenson Wright > Quotes

“He looked like an angelic little boy who had been kicked out of his orphanage for failing to take part in group masturbation.”
― Charles Stevenson Wright, The Wig: A Mirror Image

“Having children is the greatest sin in this country, according to Madam X. After a series of experiments, Madam X has concluded that having children is a very great sin. Hate is an evil disease.”
― Charles Stevenson Wright, The Wig: A Mirror Image

“Progress is our most important product, General Electric says, and I had progressed to the front door of hell when all I had actually been striving for was a quiet purgatory. And I did not find it strange that hell had a soft blue sky, a springlike air, music, dust, laughter, curses.”
― Charles Stevenson Wright, The Wig: A Mirror Image

“I had never before understood what “despair” meant, and I am not sure that I understand now, but I understood that year. —JOAN DIDION”
― Charles Stevenson Wright, The Collected Novels of Charles Wright: The Messenger, The Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About